“For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.” WantReasonSchoolEasyOur LivesAmbitionTrainingFairsManagementPopulationEndlessManageDomainFoulEvery SecondExpendituresManagement Systems Author:John Taylor Gatto
“If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire the fundamentals of the timeless principles of academic school, which is a prerequisite for the development of your Uniqueness as an Artist.” IfsShouldDreamSchoolArtistPrinciplesStyleDevelopmentAmbitionAimFundamentalsYour DreamsAcquireCopiesAcademicUniquenessTimelessPrerequisites Author:Igor Babailov
“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.” WorldGivingIdeasRealCharacterGovernmentEyeSchoolSexTermChurchMoralOpinionSocietyFieldsMetsAmbitionTheaterUniversityMeritRealmsLazyCrownsStampsArenaPublic OpinionCradleFixingSpursPretensionCrucibleOutrunTribunals Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.” GivingHeartBookSchoolFunnyGirlHouseLeftSexCommonBoysFailingSonBirthAmbitionHumorousPartnersCommon SenseFancyGloriousBreastsAmbitiousAlliancesStirringBoy And GirlGiving Birth Author:Charles Dickens
“I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread of aspiration that runs strong in them. It is the fiber that has formed the most unselfish creatures who inhabit this earth. They want three things only; for their children to be fed, to be healthy, and to make the most of themselves.” ThinkingKnowsWantChildrenRunningSchoolEarthMotherThreeStrongWomenTaughtHealthyCreaturesAmbitionAspirationFedsThreadManhoodThree ThingsFiberUnselfish Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.” WantedSchoolActorsActingAmbitionTheaterStartingGradesConsumedSiberia Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev
“I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.” IfsGivingWritingTryingWould BeSchoolCausesGoalCareersCollegeAmbitionBeatsThirdsRateCommitVersionsRebelGraduatesNew ThingsAdolescenceFiniteLife GoalHowlGraduate SchoolPoppingRebels Without A Cause Author:Billy Collins
“If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a kind of school for humility than it should be, and we will become too accustomed to regarding children as instruments of our ambition and of our desires.” IfsShouldKindChildrenSchoolDesireWorryHumilityAmbitionInstrumentsTraitsAccustomedDown The Road Author:Michael Sandel
“I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge. That's something that I'm actively engaged in conversations about now with my reps: What's out there that I can really either put myself on tape for, or meet with the director for and read for? How do we do that? We're now at the end of the Star Trek reboot trilogies and whether we are going to do another movie remains to be seen, and so I feel like I'm at the end of this cycle that began with me coming out of school and auditioning and building my way up.” WayFeelsI CanEndsSchoolStarsBuildingDirectorsConversationAmbitionRemainsEdgesMy WayFirmEngagedCyclesComing OutTapeAuditionsMy AmbitionTrilogies Author:Zachary Quinto
“When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.” WantSchoolLawJudgingAmbitionRealisticBenchesLaw SchoolSingle WomenFederal Judges Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn't have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work - and a lot of financial aid - I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.” SchoolGirlParentChanceCollegeHard WorkAmbitionFinancialAidsNeighborhoodMy AmbitionLaw SchoolCollege Degree Author:Michelle Obama
“My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.” StillsSchoolTeachTeacherTeachingAmbitionHigh SchoolCoachesMy Ambition Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.” ThinkingMindChildrenLongSometimesSchoolLawTermClearPlansConditionsReadyAmbitionMy FriendsLonelySuperiorsLong TermLaw School Book:A Gate at the Stairs Source: A Gate at the Stairs
“The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.” ChildrenEnoughHappensSchoolTogetherValuesForceParentCommunityAttitudeFamilyConditionsShapesAmbitionConcernStonesMy FamilyCornersScalesOur FamilyOur SocietyMassiveCollapsePlaygroundsCrippledFamily ValuesFamily Together Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.” LongArtTwoSchoolChoicesComedyGraceFitAmbitionSavedSavingTwo ThingsPencilsMy AmbitionArt SchoolSaving Grace Author:Noel Fielding
“Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsLongHas BeensDoneSchoolYoungChildhoodCollegePaperAmbitionPreparationEnteringDiscouragedPrintedBe EncouragedYoung WritersApprenticeship Author:Wallace Stegner
“I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way. We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.” WorldWayInspirationalKidsWantedSchoolPainSufferingOrderChallengesBlessingAmbitionExceptionRight WayScholarship Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh